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> I love how authortiarians Authoritarians? I'm talking about democracies! Where most people want marijuana, it gets legal. Where it doesn't, it's because peo

• dns_snek 3y ago
  > Where it doesn't, it's because people at large don't want it. That's it! "People at large don't want", after the government spent decades brainwashing the population about the supposed dangers of drugs with sustained propaganda? By that standard North Korea and Russia are fully democratic countries, too, the population just happens to support things that their governments are doing!
  • pif 3y ago
    > after the government spent decades brainwashing ... Please, not that rhetoric again! Do you even know what a democracy is?
• 542354234235 3y ago
  >Where most people want marijuana, it gets legal. Where it doesn't, it's because people at large don't want it. That's it! Or in a free society, people that want it, get it. People that don't, choose not to get it. Authoritarian is saying "I don't like it, so I will force you not to have it". The right to control one's body is a pretty fundamental freedom. You aren't supposed to be able to vote to take away the freedom of others. In an extreme example, you can't vote to make slavery legal. Laws can be immoral and unethical, and breaking those laws does not automatically make the law breaker unjustified.